Hah… well it has to do with a few factors… it was our first product and priced with bad margin… and it’s hard to raise prices on products… but it’s also that the T5577 chip is easy to source and we can buy in small batches, whereas other silicon chips that go into our implants either have huge MOQs or are priced much higher to order just small qty… and keep in mind the quantity these chip makers usually sell to manufacturers are in the millions of chips per year… and we’re… not that.
The xM1+ was a special chip that we made which could act like a Mifare Classic 1k chip and also allow sector 0 to be written to, enabling customers to completely clone old Mifare Classic 1k cards and tags to their implant.